The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

7.3/ 10

TMDB Rating

701

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1989

Release Year

124 min

Runtime

Crime

Drama

Overview

When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners. His wife, Georgina, is especially disgusted by him, and soon begins an affair with regular guest Michael. Despite their best efforts to keep it secret, Spica learns about their trysts, and he plots a terrible revenge.

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Keywords

sadism

sexuality

allegory

cooking

restaurant

crime boss

satire

surrealism

sociopath

murder

brutality

avant-garde

public humiliation

stray dog

abusive husband

french cuisine

adulterous wife

cannibalism

violence

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Cast

Michael Gambon

Michael Gambon

Albert Spica

Richard Bohringer

Richard Bohringer

Richard Boarst

Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren

Georgina Spica

Alan Howard

Alan Howard

Michael

Tim Roth

Tim Roth

Mitchel

Ciarán Hinds

Ciarán Hinds

Cory

Liz Smith

Liz Smith

Grace

Gary Olsen

Gary Olsen

Spangler

Ewan Stewart

Ewan Stewart

Harris

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Turpin

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talisencrw

May 2, 2016

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9/10

Having previously watched Greenaway's 'Prospero's Books', basically from the same era, one definitely gets a sense of the auteur, of great visualizing prowess in the Welsh native. I adore watching Helen Mirren from ANY era, but particularly here, in between the young adulthood beauty she displayed i…

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